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It was the final day of racing at Lake Bled today with women's single sculls wrapping up the program for this year's Rowing World Championships. The women's final in the single sculls was won by Mirka Knapkova from the Czech Republic. Finishing second was Ekaterina Karsten from Belarus, whereas Emma Twigg from New Zealand took the bronze. Zhang Xiuyun from China was fourth, Frida ...

Organizers of the Rowing World Championship at Lake Bled set new times of tomorrows races. Due to expected bad weather in the afternoon races will start 90 minutes earlier. First start of LTAMix4+ has therefore been moved from 11.03 to 9.33. Official FISA bulletin: Racing on Sunday 4 September shall be advanced by 1:30 hrs to start at 9:33 hrs instead of 11:03 hrs. A weather ...

It was all about Mahe Drysdale the penultimate day of racing at Lake Bled on Saturday. The single sculler from New Zealand was favorite for the World champion title, but he had quite a competition in the rest of the field. Alan Campbell from Great Britain started off as the fastest, but soon Ondrej Synek from the Czech Republic and Drysdale closed up on him. It was Drysdale ...

It was a sunny Saturday at Lake Bled, where over 10,000 spectators gathered to watch the final medal race of local hopes Iztok Cop and Luka Spik in the men's double sculls final. But it was a race of New Zealand's Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan, reigning World Champions, against the rest of the field. The race kicked off a few minutes later than planned, since it was a swan ...

Day five of racing in Bled saw first final events. It was another prestigious win for the men's eight from Germany. Reigning World Champions are unbeaten for the third year in a row, Polish Poznan, New Zealand's Lake Karapiro and now Slovenia's Lake Bled are announcing a great hunt for Germany for next year's Olympic Games in London. In the women's quadruple sculls prior to ...

Fourth day racing in Bled kicked-off with repechage races on Wednesday, continued with quarterfinals and ended with semifinals A/B/C/D for most boat classes. It was another win for the German men's eight, which has been unbeaten for the last couple of years. But the guys from the „Achter“ will certainly have a lot of work in tomorrows final, since there are ...

Third day of racing at Lake Bled continued today with the adaptive program kicked-off the event schedule in the morning. Afterward it was time for repechage races for semifinal races. In the men's double sculls the French team won the third repechage respectfully, putting everything in place after the heat loss against local heroes Iztok Cop and Luka Spik on Sunday. In men's ...

The near perfect rowing conditions on Lake Bled saw repechages and heats today. Also racing were men in non-olympic boat coxed pair, where fastest qualifing time was set in heat two by Australia’s William Lockwood, James Chapman and coxswain David Webster. Women's Eight saw two heats with the winner of each heat taking a direct path to Friday’s final and lining ...

First day of racing was successful for most of the favorites at Lake Bled today. Spectators could see a lot of interesting races. The men’s single scull was the race with most rowers, since it attracted 36 countries and it was divided into six heats, the goal was to finish in a top three position for a direct path to the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Reigning World Champion ...

The 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled have officially opened the event with a grand opening ceremony. All gathered were addressed by the President of the Republic of Slovenia Mr. Danilo Türk, who among other wished a successful event to all participants. Main performers were the drumming group The Stroj Machine, the Slovenian singer Manca Izmajlova and the dance group ...